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FactoryBot
RSpec is a testing framework for the Ruby programming language, and FactoryBot (formerly known as Factory Girl) is a library for creating test data in Ruby. Together, these tools can be used to write unit-tests for a Ruby application.
In FactoryBot, a factory is a blueprint for creating test data objects. A factory can define various attributes of the objects it creates, such as the object’s type, the values of its attributes, and any associations it has with other objects.
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